Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
So much happens behind-the-scenes of a Museum, and even more so within a conservation lab. Tune in to our latest video with Lisa Bruno, Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, for peek into how we care for our collections—from reversing outdated treatments to stories behind recent projects and what took place when the Museum shut down due to COVID-19.
Video by Anne Sofie Nørskov, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow
Treatments featured: William Williams, Deborah Hall (1766) ⇨ Cecily Brown (British, born 1969). Triumph of the Vanities II, 2018. Purchase gift of John and Barbara Vogelstein in honor of Anne Pasternak © artist or artist's estate ⇨ Assyrian reliefs, Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashur-nasir-pal II, circa 883–859 B.C.E. Funding for the conservation of the Assyrian Reliefs was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.
So much happens behind-the-scenes of a Museum, and even more so within a conservation lab. Tune in to our latest video with Lisa Bruno, Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator, for peek into how we care for our collections—from reversing outdated treatments to stories behind recent projects and what took place when the Museum shut down due to COVID-19.
Video by Anne Sofie Nørskov, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow
Treatments featured: William Williams, Deborah Hall (1766) ⇨ Cecily Brown (British, born 1969). Triumph of the Vanities II, 2018. Purchase gift of John and Barbara Vogelstein in honor of Anne Pasternak © artist or artist's estate ⇨ Assyrian reliefs, Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashur-nasir-pal II, circa 883–859 B.C.E. Funding for the conservation of the Assyrian Reliefs was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.






![90 Seconds with Catherine Morris on Nellie Mae Rowe
“[Nellie Mae Rowe] is often called an outsider or a folk artist or a vernacular artist,” says Catherine Morris. “But one of the things we really want to do with this exhibition is show Rowe’s participation in the expanded history of American art and make her the pertinent player that she is in that history.”
Get a curator’s perspective with our own Catherine Morris. And experience Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe before it closes on January 1, 2023.
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